RIP Gene Amdahl

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RIP Gene Amdahl

posted on Nov 13, 2015 11:01AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/technology/gene-amdahl-pioneer-of-mainframe-computing-dies-at-92.html

on-topic: Amdahl's Law explains why CPU execution speed matters and why Intel et al can't just multicore everything forever.